become a herdsman If he is an artizan. It is permitted that the sophist only be from any caste: for the life of the sophist is not an easy one, but the hardest of all.
XIII.    The Indians hunt all  wild animals in the same way as the Greeks, except the elephant, which is hunted  in a mode altogether peculiar, since these  animals  are   not   like   any   others. The mode may be thus described :—The hunters having selected a level tract of  arid ground dig a trench all round it, enclosing as much space as would  suffice  to  encamp a large  army.    They make the trench with a breadth of five fathoms and a depth of four.    But the earth which they throw out in the process of digging they heap up in mounds on both edges of the trench,  and use it as a wall.     Tfcen they make huts  for themselves by excavating the wall on the outer edge of the trench,   and in these they leave   loopholes, both to admit light,  and to enable them to see when their prey approaches and enters the enclosure.    They next station some three or four of their best-trained she-elephants within the trap, to which they leave only a single passage  by means of a bridge thrown across the trench, the framework of which  they   cover   over   with    earth and a  great   quantity   of straw,  to conceal the bridge as much as possible from the wild animals, which might else suspect treachery.    The hunters then go out of the way, retiring to the cells which they had made  in the earthen wall.    Now the